Re: [OSM-talk] Cyclopath wiki bicycle map
Steve Bennett wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Reid Priedhorsky r...@umn.edu wrote: Anyway, I mostly wanted to say hi and let you all know we are here. If you have any questions, ask and I will reply here on the list. Hi Reid. Just wondering if/when this project will expand outside Minnesota? Also, and I haven't really been following this thread, how does it integrate with OSM, and could it integrate better? Seems a pity to collect information twice... Hi Steve, Short answer, we have active plans to expand and should have some news within the next few weeks. The model we are following is the Craigslist island model, i.e. focusing on adding metro areas and regions one by one (as opposed to expanding in a big circle from Minneapolis). Currently, we do not integrate with OSM at all, and I agree with you. In terms of data sharing OSM to Cyclopath, we are leery of the OSM licensing mess and hesitate to get involved. The other way round would work fine (a previous poster gave our data license as CC, but actually we have broad freedom to share the data under general openness goals). I'd also be interested in how we might move towards sharing tool chains and things. I believe the key issues here might be data complexity (we have a lot more types of features and relationships than just ways) and all the fiddly little choices that are made differently between two independent projects. Reid ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Cyclopath wiki bicycle map (was: Philosophy about Autorouting for Cyclists and new key class:bicycle)
On Tue, 04 May 2010 13:35:40 -0700, David Fawcett wrote: You may be interested in the CycloPath project. http://cyclopath.org/ It is an OSM-like project for bicycle routes in Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. A user can edit the cycle 'ways' and rate preferences for different ways. CycloPath can then generate preferable routes for that user. Hi all, Forgive me for parachuting in. I'm the project leader for Cyclopath, and a Google Alert for that search term led me to this thread. Cyclopath does do subjective routing, in two ways. First, cyclists can rate the bikeability of roads and trails on a block-by-block basis, and these preferences are taken into account when routing. Second, when you request a route, you can give requirements in terms of bikeability vs. distance and which tags you prefer and disprefer. I believe this is the same subjective-over-objective philosophy another commenter in this thread recommended. We also support a number of annotations within the map: collaboratively edited notes and tags (where tags are the traditional definition: words or phrases that are attached to a map feature), bikeability ratings, and we recently added discussions to the map. Cyclopath is a research project and has led to several well-received papers in the human-computer interaction and collaborative systems domains. See http://reidster.net/papers.html for more. Anyway, I mostly wanted to say hi and let you all know we are here. If you have any questions, ask and I will reply here on the list. Thanks! Reid ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
